Since many sellers of counterfeit goods
purchase the fakes on Alibaba for resale on
eBay, Facebook etc, it is obviously essential
that we UK Anti Piracy has a working
relationship with Alibaba Group and dedicated
facilities to report fakes on Taobao.

UK
Anti Piracy enjoys a relationship with Alibaba
Group and has negotiated alibaba.com and
aliexpress.com reporting facilities. However;
Taobao is treated differently by Alibaba group
and we are pleased to report that dedicated
reporting facilities are now in place.

However, we had been trying to register as anti
piracy enforcement agents with Taobao for over a year.
Put simply Taobao used numerous tactics to ensure
that our registration was not completed. This
has led us to the inescapable conclusion that Taobao do not wish fakes to be removed from the
Taobao website - Taobao supports counterfeits -
Taobao is a semi-criminal enterprise.

The
head of Taobao (Jack Ma) now publicly accepts the need to combat
piracy, and has launched a Taobao Intellectual
Property Reporting Platform. But at the time of writing (Oct
28th
2016) the Taobao Intellectual Property
Protection Platform remains either incompetent or
corrupt.

Put simply; they use every
possible excuse and maneuver to evade their
responsibility to remove fakes.

It could
be argued that the Taobao Intellectual Property
Protection Platform is a sham.

It should be noted that many reports to
Taobao include numerous cases of fakes being
sold on Taobao. Let us assume that the
average number of fake products reported is
3, the average number of sales per item is
9, and that the average loss to the rights
holder is £7.83 per fake item sold.

3 x 9 x £7.83 =
£211.41

Some reports of fakes sold on Taobao
will not be valid, but many other items
remain unreported. The above is Taobao
report number 3,686,693

3,686,693 x £211.41 = £779,403,767

It could be argued that Taobao
have a vested interest in not removing
fakes. some would argue that Taobao is
an illegal organisation.

The following counterfeits (also shown above)
were reported to Taobao via the Taobao
Intellectual Property Reporting Platform on
October 20th 2016. On 28th October they still
had not been removed but the complaint was no
longer registered. We have been reporting these
counterfeits to Taobao for over a year without
success.